Words matter. These are the best Gina Miller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.
I just want people to be equal and fair to each other.
In more stable political times, a low turnout in the E.U. elections was a luxury we could afford.
As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.
The problem with article 50 of the Lisbon treaty is that it is not substantive in its content or conditions, and only concerns itself with procedural requirements.
My day job, running a fund management company, means I know that I and my team can’t afford not to read every word of every document about assets or markets we propose to invest in, and to be absolutely clear we are complying with all the legal and regulatory requirements involved.
So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.
I often go into the lions’ den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.
No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.
I welcome the Independent Group as it is committed to saving the country from a catastrophic hard Brexit.
If Canadian companies want to sell products to the E.U., they have to prove those products conform with E.U. product safety, health and environmental rules. This involves extra bureaucracy, controls and paperwork. If the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U., U.K. companies would have to do the same.
As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard’s ‘Women & Power: A Manifesto’ brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.
In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.
From teaching, the NHS and social care, to cleaning and building, the U.K. economy depends heavily on E.U. workers. Under a Canada-style deal for the U.K./E.U., the ability for E.U. workers to live and work freely in the U.K. would stop.
As transparency campaigner for more than 10 years, I have long had a sense that something was not quite right about the E.U. referendum. I warned back in November 2017 that the leave campaign seemed to be awash with dark money that may have circumvented rules designed to uphold the integrity of our democratic process.
Ever since David Cameron took it on himself to prise open Pandora’s box and call the E.U. referendum, the only thing that’s been predictable has been the utter unpredictability of what has followed.
I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.
I’ve worked for everything I’ve had, and I can’t think of a better way of using it than standing up for what’s right, and what’s required to build a better society.
British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.
You have to respect what money and success gives you, then have the responsibility that goes with that.
No prime minister, no government can expect to be unanswerable or unchallenged.
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.
Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.
I’m afraid I’m a complete workaholic perfectionist.
As people in business know, if you just sit on your hands and don’t progress with the changing environment, you won’t reform and improve the existing relationships you have.
I fought for MPs to have the right to vote on article 50 not because I was against Brexit, but because I was, and remain passionately, an advocate of parliamentary sovereignty.
Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.
I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.’s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.
Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.
I never doubted that our parliamentarians would vote to trigger article 50 but I expected a detailed, pragmatic debate around the options of how to execute Brexit and the processes involved.
I’m a marketeer, and I thought the message discipline in the Leave campaign was extraordinary.
The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of tycoons would see their wealth and influence turbocharged, while the mass of the population would see their prosperity, their security and, ultimately, their liberty dwindle away.
It is one of the most beautiful things about our country that just one individual, so long as he or she has the law on their side, can take on the most powerful institutions or people in the land and win.
In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament’s disposal to ensure a fair balance of powers.
I didn’t realise how much of a personal vendetta Dominic Cummings had against the establishment.
An opposition that won’t oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.
I come from South America and it’s part of our culture to speak out. It’s a lot healthier.
I’m not sure when exactly it started to become the fashion in Westminster to skim-read documents, only bother with bullet points or, worse, to take them entirely on trust – but that, perhaps, was when we began as a country to lose our way.
The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal – prime ministers and private citizens alike.
I am more interested in teaching my children empathy than subscribing to our ‘me’ culture and obsessing about ‘how do I feel’ all the time.
It was a privilege to play a leading role in helping to safeguard our parliamentary sovereignty, and as such I am, on any view, a person with a genuine and substantial interest in the matter of defending MPs’ voices.
Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.
We can and must support our MPs in doing the job they will be elected to do: to hold the government to account in order to do what’s best for Britain.
If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.
A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.
What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All too often, arguments are conducted not on the basis of facts but on the basis of emotion – and, honestly, it is no fun being abused in the pages of tabloid newspapers or online.
Democracy abhors a vacuum.
My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.
My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don’t break easily.
I was never binary remain or leave. I was very much of the sentiment, and still am, that it was about remain, reform and review. The U.K. actually has a very powerful place in Europe.
I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.
If you dwell on your negativity you can never move on.
All I want is for Remain United to lift the fog so that people who oppose Farage – and his chilling authoritarian vision for our country – can deploy their votes strategically and effectively.
It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law – even the prime minister – and no one, not even him, is above it.
